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Seriously...
I'm currently distressed because one of my 6 monitors died and I had to temporarily replace it with a smaller 1080p one.
But then I look at OP's setup, and I wonder ... how do people live like that?
(At least put the monitor without rows of dead pixels in the straight forward, primary monitor position!)
Also the cable management is killing me.
But real talk, 6 monitors? I had two at one point in my life but I just got tired of looking sideways all the time. Just wanted one monitor to look straight ahead at.
I feel like people who need that many monitors are actually in need of (a) better window management (/manager).
Ever since I switched to tiling windows over a decade ago I had no need for multiple monitors. And now that I'm using a scrolling window manager, life is just so gucci when working and during leisure time on the computer. π
Consider it like a tiling window manager, but each monitor is a 'tile', allowing each tiled application to still have a full-sized window that's not cramped.
And, yes, of course there's a center monitor that's the main workhorse. But I want other things to be visible at a glance at any time, without needing to move or cover up my main work piece to do so. For me, I'm a writer, and the 5 extra screens are often used for notes, outlines, maps, research material, etc. That way, I can have all that stuff open and available to reference with a glance, without needing to pause my typing on the main screen, without needing to take focus* away from the main document I'm working on.
*By focus, I mean in the window manager sense -- the main document's app remains the one in focus, the one receiving keyboard input, so I can continue typing even while looking at my notes.
Needing to switch between apps and take the focus away from my main document in order to check my outline/notes/whatever would really slow me down and would just be a pain, no matter how easy switching is. Trying to tile it all onto one monitor sounds horribly cramped, making each window small and difficult to work with. (Maybe if I tiled it all on one huge monitor, it could be acceptable ... but 6 small monitors are cheaper than one really huge one. It would have to be a massive single screen in order to have the same amount of screen space and resolution as 6 monitors.)
That's very enlightening actually. Different use cases and work types have different needs and require different setups I guess, yeah.
I'm a programmer, so I often have a window open with documentation, or the result of my work, beside my editor. But rarely do I need to keep typing while looking at the other window, so that's a different scenario for me. Every window is kind of my "main" window, you could say. Very linear work. Do an edit, examine the results; repeat.
Thanks for sharing your perspective!
Congratulations: you are now wiser than a Gnome dev.
Why do I sense some resentment there π
I dunno, I never thought they made awful decisions. Just very opinionated and perhaps inflexible, but I think they made them in the name of progress and outreach (thinking of Gnome 2 to 3 updates). A lot of conservative power users were upset. But I was excited, even as a long-time user. I thought it looked fresh. Then I discovered tiling window management.